28 Bible Verses about Barren (KJV)

Here are 28 Bible verses about barren, curated from both the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, King James Version, arranged from most to least relevant.

Luke 23:29 KJV

²⁹For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.

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1 Timothy 2:15 KJV

¹⁵Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.

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Psalm 113:9 KJV

⁹He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the Lord.

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Isaiah 54:1 KJV

¹Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the Lord.

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Genesis 25:21 KJV

²¹And Isaac intreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren: and the Lord was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

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Galatians 4:27 KJV

²⁷For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.

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Hosea 13:16 KJV

¹⁶Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.

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Isaiah 49:21 KJV

²¹Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?

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Deuteronomy 28:1-68 KJV

¹And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: ²And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God. ³Blessed shalt thou be in the …

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Job 15:34 KJV

³⁴For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.

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Genesis 1:28 KJV

²⁸And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

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Luke 1:5 KJV

⁵There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.

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Judges 13:1-2 KJV

¹And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years. ²And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not.

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Numbers 25:4-9 KJV

⁴And the Lord said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the Lord against the sun, that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel. ⁵And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baalpeor. ⁶And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of …

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Genesis 3:16 KJV

¹⁶Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

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Romans 9:20-21 KJV

²⁰Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? ²¹Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

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Acts 2:4 KJV

⁴And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

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John 16:22 KJV

²²And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.

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Hosea 9:14 KJV

¹⁴Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

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Psalm 51:5 KJV

⁵Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

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Romans 5:1 KJV

¹Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

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Psalm 139:13-16 KJV

¹³For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. ¹⁴I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. ¹⁵My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. ¹⁶Thine eyes did see my substance, yet …

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Psalm 137:9 KJV

⁹Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.

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2 Kings 8:12 KJV

¹²And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child.

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1 Samuel 2:5 KJV

⁵They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.

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Genesis 30:1-2 KJV

¹And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die. ²And Jacob’s anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God’s stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?

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Genesis 29:31 KJV

³¹And when the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.

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Genesis 2:7 KJV

⁷And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

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